A procession of heavy-duty trucks rolls down the valley to waiting refineries, where shipments of gray ore are processed into a battery material vital to the world’s energy transition — lithium. The surging popularity of electric vehicles has transformed this once threadbare area into the country’s lithium mining capital.

Sodium-ion tech is 90% cheaper than lithium and already in 250K vehicles. Could it make U.S. EVs cheaper—and sideline Detroit’s battery strategy?

Tylah Tully chats with Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM) managing director and CEO Nick Rathjen after the company made a move to acquire the remainder of the Miriam project from Corazon Mining (ASX:CZN).

He said the cause of the fire might have been a lithium battery. Vilanova mayor Juan Luis Ruiz Lopez told public television TVE that authorities expected that, with the fire being put out, "this toxic cloud will start to dissipate and we can lift the ...

GM and its partner LG Energy Solution plan to launch production of the technology, called lithium manganese-rich batteries, in the U.S. by 2028.